1963. Oil/canvas, 130 x 90 cm, on the reverse on label of the Albiker-Stiftung Schloss Ettlingen with monogram W.B. titled as well as work no. 37, on the frame dat. 1963. - Provenance: Estate of Hilde von Lang, managing director and publisher of the German weekly newspaper 'Die Zeit', partner in life of Gerd Bucerius, founder of 'Die Zeit' and patron of the arts; auction house Stahl, 26.11.2011, lot 175; since then private collection Schleswig-Holstein. - Expressionist painter and graphic artist. B. first studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Essen, from 1915 after a short military service at the academies in Karlsruhe and Dresden, where he was a master student of K. Albiker. From 1924 to 1935 he lived in southern France, where he was in contact with G. Braque and Th. Mann, among others. After his return to Germany in 1937, he was ostracized as a 'degenerate' artist and retired to Tutzing. In 1952 he became a professor at the Karlsruhe Academy alongside E. Heckel. Mus.: Munich, Karlsruhe, Hannover, Freiburg, Ettlingen, Bochum. Lit.: AKL, Vollmer a. others.